488 LABIATiE. 



** Flowers sessile, capitate : heads axillary. 



^ 6. H. capitata, Jacq. Stout, glabrescent ; leaves petioled, ovate-oblong, pointed, 

 unequally and coarsely serrate, floral ohlong-linear, at length reflexed, shorter than the 

 , head : heads globose, acdllary, shorter than their peduncle ; calyx equal : teeth subulate- 

 '^ 'setaceous, erect, at length one-third as long as the tuie. — SI. t. 109./. 3. — Clinopodium, 

 £.— 7'_2'high; leaves a"-5", peduncles 3"(-l") long: heads in fruit 10"'-12"' diam.— 

 Hab. Jamaica!, all coll., a common weed; Antigua!, WuUschl., S. Lucia!, S» Vincent!, 

 Guild. ; [Cuba ! and Mexico ! to Brazil ! ; G-alapagos ! ; Manilla I]. 



7. H. brevipes, Poit. Stout, hairy above; leaves petioled, ovate or ovate-oblong, 

 ^, pointed, iuciso-serrate, floral lanceolate-acuminate, exceeding the flowering head ; heads 

 globose, axillary, about as long as their peduncle ; calyx equal ; teeth subulate-setaceous, 

 erect, at length about as long as the tube. — Habit of the preceding, but leaves usually 

 broader, peduncles 6"'(-l") long, heads smaller, in fruit 6"'-8"'.diam., and calyx-teeth 

 longer. — Hab. Jamaica; Trinidad!, C»'., in moist places, Sieb. Tr.Sh9; [Martinique!; 

 Mexico to Brazil !, trop. Africa ! and Asia !]. 



'8. H. atrorubens, Poit. Procumbent or ascending, hairy above ; leaves petioled, 

 shortly ovate-oblong or ovate, obtusely serrate, floral ovate, appressed, almost as long as the 

 , ' head ; heads globose-hemispherical, axillary, as long as (or half as long as) their peduncle ; 

 calyx equal, truncate : teeth setaceous, erect, hispidulous, at length shorter than the tube. — ■ 

 Ann. Mus.l.t.'il.f.i. — Booting at the base; leaves 1" long; heads 4"'-6"' diam. — 

 Hab. Jamaica!, March; Bominica I, Imr., S. Vincent I, Guild.; Trinidad!, XocM., dr., 

 in moist savannahs ; [Haiti and Mexico !" to Brazil I ; Senegambia !]. 



9. H. lantanifolia, Poit. Virgate, usually villous ; leaves subsessile or inferior 

 petioled, shortly ovate-oblong, serrate, floral exterior ones ovate, spreading, subserrate, 

 interior ovate-oblong, about as long as the head; heads hemispherical, confined to the 



' superior axils, shorter than or as long as their peduncle ; calyx equal : teeth rigid, linear- 

 acuminate, spinescent, recurved-flexuose, yellowish, minutely puberulous, longer than the 

 tube. — Ann. Mus. 7. t. 29. /. 1. — 3'-5' high ; leaves 1", peduncles li-J" long ; heads 

 about 6'" diam. 



a. All leaves subsessQe, villous beneath. 



;3. glabrescens. Puberulous with appressed down ; leaves glabrescent beneath, superior 

 subsessile, inferior shortly petioled. 



Hab. Trinidad!, Lockh., Cr., in savannahs (a, ;8) ; [Mexico ! to Brazil !]. 



10. H. melanosticta, Gr. {ri. sp.). Virgate; leaves petioled, elliptical-oblong, 

 pointed, cuneate at the base, serrate above, glabrescent or slightly pilose with flaccid hairs, 

 black-dotted beneath, floral linear-acuminate, at length reflexed, little exceeding the inferior 

 flowers; heads globose, axillary: their diameter longer than their short ped/anole ; calyx 

 equal : teeth subulate-setaceous, spreading-erect, slightly recurved at the point, hispidulous, 

 at length about half as long as the tube. — Habit of H. obtusiflora, Prl., and apparently 

 allied to H. vilis, Kth. Stem simple, 1' high, pubescent chiefly along the angles ; leaves 

 about 1" long, 5"'-6"' broad: serratures few, spreading; heads in most axils, 4'''-5"' diam., 

 nearly equalling the petiole : peduncle 3"'-l'" long : floral leaves numerous, resembling 

 bracts, 3 " long : receptacle hairy ; calyx membranaceous, hispidulous, naked within, often 

 black-dotted : teeth about i'" long. — Hab. Tnnidad !, Or., in savannahs at Caroni. 



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Flowers sessile, in racemose heads. 



1^11. H. spicata, Poit. Stout, glabrescent; leaves petioled, ovate, pointed, unequally 

 serrate, /orai el(ip(ical, at length much shorter than the head s heads usually few-flowered, 

 in simple or compound, interrupted racemes; calyx equal, truncate: tube cylindrical, 



' ventricose at the base : teeth shortly setaceous, erect, mzich shorter than the tube.— Ann. 

 Mus. 7. t. 28. f. 3.— Vai-iable; leaves l"-8", calyx 3"'-B"' long; coroUa exserted.— Hab. 

 Trinidad !, Sieb. Tr. 365 ; [Cuba 1 ; Florida ! to Buenos Ayres !]. 



12. H. polystachya, Xlh. Stout, pubescent ; leaves petioled, ovate, pointed, un- 

 equally aen&te, floral elliptical-oblong, pointed, about as long as the head; heads few- 

 flowered, in a panicle of virgate racemes ; calyx equal, truncate, hairy : teeth short, linear, 

 bluntish, erect, much shorter than the tube.— Leaves l"-3" long, superior decrescent ; calyx 



